Recording for faculty choreography 2002... Improvisational ensemble recording session 2002... Composing Homeland Suite 2008

Kathleen Pierson, musician and teacher

Teacher of Music History/Appreciation and Theory/Fundamentals

Composer and Performer, specializing in Music for Dance

link to
Kathleen's c.v.

hear Kathleen's
original music

see "Homeland Suite"
text and commentary

Contact: kathleen -at- kathleenpierson -dot- com
Kathleen Pierson, PO Box 18022, Asheville, NC 28814

News:

March 12-16, 2008, Kathleen once again accompanied at American College Dance Festival, for the seventeenth time,
this year hosted by her alma mater Goucher College where she first accompanied dance, forty years ago

Kathleen's commissioned choral work "Homeland Suite" premeiered May 4th, 2008
by Reuter Center Singers, on the UNC-Asheville campus

Kathleen will be teaching a summer course entitled "Exploring Musical Composition" at Reuter Center in June

History:

Currently (2008): freelance composing, performing, and teaching in Asheville, NC
2005-2007: full-time accompanist/composer and instructor, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2004-2005: Guest Artist, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2001-2004: part-time faculty in music and Resident Musician in Dance, Denison University, Granville, OH
prior to 2001: Maryland and Arkansas, primarily at Towson University, Goucher College, and the University of Arkansas

Singing onstage in Sara Murdock's choreography 2005... With composition student Mary Mayer 1999... As singer/songwriter 2007

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This site's background photo was my view along the trail down from the summit of Graybeard, in Montreat, NC, 2004.